Appeal No. 2004-0941
Application No. 09/180,901
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the
documents listed below:
Steiner 4,521,138 Jun. 4, 1985
Shindo 4,781,492 Nov. 1, 1988
Scheiwiller 5,548,938 Aug. 27, 1996
Manent 2,657,638 Aug. 2, 1991
(France)1
The following rejections are before us for review.
Claims 9 and 13 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Manent in view of Shindo and Steiner.
Claim 16 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Manent in view of Shindo and Steiner, as
applied to claim 13 above, further in view of Scheiwiller.
Claims 17 through 19 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over Manent in view of Shindo.
1 Our understanding of this foreign language document is
derived from a reading of a translation thereof prepared for the
United States Patent and Trademark Office. A copy of the
translation is appended to this opinion.
2
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